[Mono-list] [off-topic] mailman anti-spam

[Simon Dawson]

At 05:15 29/02/2004, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

>> I'm sorry for this off-topic, but I would suggest to configure the
>> mailman of these lists with "Show member addrs so they're not directly
>> recognisable as email addrs?" (Privacy Options) set to Yes.
>
>That wont work, it was a good idea 4 years ago.  Most modern spammers
>can reconstruct your email address from that and a lot more.

one thing I've seen on other lists, which -would- work is simply to remove
the tail end of the address from anything which is posted to the web.

eg, mono-list@ximian.com -> mono-list@[snipped]

or similar.. 

while leaving it intact for the actual mailing list itself.

Si